Jacques François

Biography

Henri Jacques Daniel Paul François (16 May 1920 – 25 November 2003), known as Jacques François was a French actor. During a sixty-year career (1942–2002) he appeared in more than 120 films and over 30 stage productions. In 1948 he went to Hollywood with a view to playing the lead in Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948) but the part went to Louis Jourdan. After appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the playwright Jacques Pierre Barredout in The Barkleys of Broadway (Charles Walters, 1949) he returned to France. François regularly dubbed Gregory Peck into French. During World War II, he served as a captain in the French First Army under General de Lattre. In 1948 he went to Hollywood with a view to playing the lead in Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948) but the part went to Louis Jourdan. After appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the playwright Jacques Pierre Barredout in The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) he returned to France. François regularly dubbed Gregory Peck into French. Source: Article "Jacques François" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

as Docteur Poinsot, le pharmacien de quartier

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time

as Maurice

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

as General

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

as der Oberst

The Day of the Jackal

as Pascal

Sorcerer

as Lefevre

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

as Colonel

Gramps Is in the Resistance

as Jacques de Frémontel dit « Félix », résistant

The Discord

as Le préfet

The Toy

as Mr. de Blénac, editor-in-chief of the newspaper